---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax Credit - Qualified Farms - Food Donation Pilot Program"
description: "Income Tax Credit - Qualified Farms - Food Donation Pilot Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 472"
citation: "Maryland HB 472 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Agriculture", "Anne Arundel County", "Calvert County", "Charles County", "Comptroller", "Food", "Gifts", "Income Tax", "Montgomery County", "Prince George's County", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "St. Mary's County", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jameson and Patterson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-27"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3fa1d7c-91be-41c9-aac9-82231cc2d3c9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB472&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "bdea74323914e18a9f7efa668e797e5d963308b4e5d46ac547e511994ee60c80"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland HB 472 (2017) — Income Tax Credit - Qualified Farms - Food Donation Pilot Program

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0472f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **118–19** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jameson and Patterson — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-27** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-23** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-28** Third Reading Passed (118-19) `passage`
- **2017-03-01** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-23** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-27** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-27** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 233 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e3fa1d7c-91be-41c9-aac9-82231cc2d3c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).